> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Whil Hentzen (Pro*) > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 6:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Another life after VFP thread? > <snip> > There are two schools of thought here. The first is to be an expert in a > language, and when the call comes for help in that language, you hold up > your hand and yell, "Pick me! Pick me!" > > The other is to be a domain expert (auto parts, insurance, factory > automation, pet store inventory...) and develop 'solutions' for that > domain. The tool(s) you use are (mostly) irrelevant. > > > Whil > </snip>
Whil has a great point here. I have been writing software for the trucking industry for over twenty years so I would have to be in category number 2. I've written in COBOL, RPG, Basic, C, dBase; and for the last fifteen years, FoxPro. I prefer FoxPro because it is the most complete, all-in-one development language I have used and one a small shop such as mine can develop a complete professional application with - and more importantly - the FoxPro community. I am going to continue to maintain my applications using VFP9 and the VMP framework. In the meantime I have been learning Python and plan on doing new development using Dabo. Python is very powerful and easy to learn for someone familiar with FoxPro. At this point in its life, Dabo is very impressive and will only get better as more people use it. Ed & Paul have not only done a great job on Dabo, but they are very helpful for those of us new to Python. Also, from what I have seen so far; there is a substantial Python community out there - not to mention hundreds of frameworks for doing just about anything. Also, Python does not mean you have to use Linux or OSX. All of my customers are Windows users and that will not change. Python does Windows (and even .NET - see IronPython) just fine. I just wrote a program in Python to take .csv files downloaded from my bank accounts & credit cards and create .iif files to import into QuickBooks. I have only been reading up on Python for a couple of weeks but it was pretty easy to do. Can I say "fun", too? Jeff Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/signed text/plain (text body -- kept) application/x-pkcs7-signature --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
